Improvement in table implements



0. W. TAF T.

Table-Implements.

Patented March 30,1875.

WITNESSES:

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IMPROVEMENT IN TABLE IMPLEMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,573, dated March30, 1875; application filed January 18, 1875.

CASE A.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN W. TAFT, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Table-Cutlery, ofwhich the following is a specification:

The invention relates to an improved and highly useful article ofcutlery for table use; and consists of thefollowing parts: a steel orknife sharpener, provided with a corkscrew, permanently attached to itsbolster; also, a guard, which answers as a pull or handle for thecorkscrew and a hollow handle, which is adapted for detachable screwconnection with the bolster, as hereinafter set forth.

The drawing represents, in sectional elevation, a steel, A, for tableuse, having a bolster, B, with a shank, D, and a corkscrew, E, formedthereon; also, a hollow handle, F, which is detachably connected to thebolster by a screw-thread, as shown at G. H is the circular guard of thesteel, which answers as a holder or handle when the corkscrew is used indrawing corks.

By this construction and conjunction of parts the steel may be held bythe handle F, and used in the ordinary manner, the handle thusconcealing and protecting the corkscrew; but when the handle is removedthe body of the steel becomes itself the handle, by which the corkscrewis held and manipulated. Thus each of the parts or elementsto wit, thesteel proper, the handle, and. the corkscrew-has a peculiar andnecessary relation in practical use.

What I claim is- The steel A, the guard H, and the corkscrew E,permanently united to the bolster B, and the hollow handle F,screw-threaded at its open end, to adapt it for detachable connectionwith the bolster, all as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

OWEN W. TAFT.

Witnesses:

T. B. MOSHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

